Statements of Policy - UMUC Europe

i. Provide an interdisciplinary examination
of issues across the five areas, or
ii. Address other categories of knowledge,
skills, and values that lie outside of the
five areas.
2. Public institutions may not include the courses
in this section in a general education program
unless they provide academic content and
rigor equivalent to the areas in Section A.1 of
this regulation.
E. General education programs leading to the AAS degree
shall include at least 20 semester hours from the
same course list designated by the sending institution
for the AA and AS degrees. The AAS degree
shall include at least one 3-semester-hour course from
each of the five areas listed in Section A.1 of this
regulation.
F. A course in a discipline listed in more than one of the
areas of general education may be applied only to
one area of general education.
G. A public institution may allow a speech communication
or foreign language course to be part of the arts
and humanities category.
H. Composition and literature courses may be placed in
the arts and humanities area if literature is included
as part of the content of the course.
I. Public institutions may not include physical education
skills courses as part of the general education
requirements.
J. General education courses shall reflect current scholarship
in the discipline and provide reference to theoretical
frameworks and methods of inquiry
appropriate to academic disciplines.
K. Courses that are theoretical may include applications,
but all applications courses shall include theoretical
components if they are to be included as meeting
general education requirements.
L. Public institutions may incorporate knowledge and
skills involving the use of quantitative data, effective
writing, information retrieval, and information literacy
when possible in the general education program.
M. Notwithstanding Section A.1 of this regulation, a
public four-year institution may require 48 semester
hours of required core courses if courses upon which
the institution’s curriculum is based carry 4 semester
hours.
N. Public institutions shall develop systems to ensure
that courses approved for inclusion on the list of
general education courses are designed and assessed
to comply with the requirements of this chapter.
V. Transfer of General Education Credit.
A. A student transferring to one public institution from
another public institution shall receive general education
credit for work completed at the student’s sending
institution as provided by this chapter.
B. A completed general education program shall transfer
without further review or approval by the receiving
institution and without the need for a
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course-by-course match.
C. Courses that are defined as general education by one
institution shall transfer as general education even if
the receiving institution does not have that specific
course or has not designated that course as general
education.
D. The receiving institution shall give lower-division
general education credits to a transferring student
who has taken any part of the lower-division general
education credits described in Regulation IV of this
chapter at a public institution for any general education
courses successfully completed at the sending
institution.
E. Except as provided in Regulation IV. M of this chapter,
a receiving institution may not require a transfer
student who has completed the requisite number of
general education credits at any public college or
university to take, as a condition of graduation, more
than 10-16 additional semester hours of general education
and specific courses required of all students
at the receiving institution, with the total number
not to exceed 46 semester hours. This provision does
not relieve students of the obligation to complete
specific academic program requirements or course prerequisites
required by a receiving institution.
F. A sending institution shall designate on or with the
student transcript those courses that have met its
general education requirements, as well as indicate
whether the student has completed the general education
program.
G. AAS Degrees.
1. While there may be variance in the numbers of
hours of general education required for AA,
AS, and AAS degrees at a given institution, the
courses identified as meeting general education
requirements for all degrees shall come from
the same general education course list and exclude
technical or career courses.
2. An AAS student who transfers into a receiving
institution with fewer than the total number
of general education credits designated by the
receiving institution shall complete the difference
in credits according to the distribution as
designated by the receiving institution. Except
as provided in Regulation IV.M of this chapter,
the total general education credits for baccalaureate
degree-granting public receiving institutions
may not exceed 46 semester hours.
H. Student Responsibilities. A student is held
1. Accountable for the loss of credits that
a. Result from changes in the student’s selection
of the major program of study,
b. Were earned for remedial course work, or
c. Exceed the total course credits accepted in
transfer as allowed by this chapter.
2. Responsible for meeting all requirements of the
academic program of the receiving institution.
VI. Transfer of Nongeneral Education Program Credit.
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